Erica Jong
American author and educator.
Keeping a journal implies hope.
I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
Dancing is like fucking... it doesn't matter how you look - just concentrate on how you feel.
Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.
Is perception equivalent to existence?
Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
It is our old love I love.
Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job.
Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Humor is a survival tool.
I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.
...the ocean kept falling into itself, gathering itself up, and falling into itself again.
Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry...
I'm just trying to lead my own fucking life if I can manage to find it in all this confusion.
Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck.
It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.